Looks great!! I planted moss roses in with my mini rose this year & then put down lawn clippings to keep watering down as on rationing. Well, the moss roses are huge about 18 in. across in some areas, I had to look for the roses!! Love you chickens on the window!! morning glory will look so pretty trailing down!! Jan

I have a large damask stencil that I'm trying to do in my dining room. The problem is my odd ding room. One wall has a floor to almost ceiling window that is slightly off-center. The other wall has two long windows separated by my 6ft. buffet. The other 2 walls are open to other rooms with 7 ft arches and 3 pillars at the corner. In other words, all walls are different. I'm trying to break up the damask so there is not an all over pattern . I'm using a gold-yellow backgraound and mettalic teal stencil color over that, so I don't want too much color. What I'm ending up with looks like a border around the top, which is too rigid for me. I'd like to be more random, but that bugs my hubby. Any ideas on how to be randomly not random? Any pictures of anyone's large stenciling?Any help appreciated.

Welcome Back! As there are so few of us, when someone goes missing, they are really missed!!!!! As to the stencils, I got mine from Patricia Rawlinson site. I waited for one of her many specials and got it at a reduced price. I just checked out her site and they are listed under Snowflakes (6 of them) or item S109 and the price is $6.97 plus s & h, which is very reasonable, her site is: creativeartslifestyle.com You might have to sign up for her newsletter in order to get her specials, but they also let you know about her new videos, which are great to watch, not only for the information on brush strokes, etc., but just as a reminder of what can be done. Hope this helps! Belle

brutuses, I also love mirrors above fireplaces, but I don't think I want something that heavy up there. dlm2000 & bodica, I think a raised relief stencil would really be pretty! This is the stencil I was looking at, it's actually a headboard, but I wouldn't use the two outer posts, the top part connecting them and the bottom base in the center (I took them out when I copied and pasted this onto my fireplace): Unfortunately, this stencil is not made to be used for raised relief applications...which if I had to commit to doing that before faux finishing, I don't think I could decide yay or nay or the location of yay! So, I will start fauxing on Wednesday (our painter needs to use the scaffolding till tomorrow) and see how it looks after I'm done. I haven't decided what's going on the opposite wall yet, but it will most likely be a tapestry or a rug, something on a very large scale. The room is ~16' x 18' with a barrel ceiling that tops out at ~20'. From the entry looking down onto the living room (it steps down 2 steps), the fireplace wall is on the left, a blank wall is on the right and a wall of windows is directly out back. Perhaps a landscape painting would be nice to set on the mantel, to fill in that space appropriately...and then I'll see if the upper portion of the fireplace still seems like it's "missing" something. I don't know, we'll see... I promise to come back and post pics as soon as I'm done fauxing! Aloha, Leilani P.S. Here is a coordinating stencil that goes with this one, but I couldn't think of an appropriate application on the fireplace to coordinate with the other stencil: